A joint police operation clamped down on farmers in the Bultfontein district who were employing illegal immigrants.
On 30 June the Bultfontein Rural Safety Co-ordinators and Visible Policing members, together with representatives of the Department of Home Affairs and the Department of Labour, targeted farms in the Bultfontein district.
The police were acting on a tip-off about farmers employing illegal immigrants from Gauteng, running away from Operation Dudula.
The 13 foreign nationals were employed as domestic workers, farm labourers and shepherds. They had no documents to be in South Africa.
The three farmers were charged for employing illegal immigrants in terms of the Immigration Act.
The 13 immigrants appeared in the Bultfontein Magistrate’s Court on Monday (04/07). The farmers will appear in the Bultfontein Magistrate’s Court on 11 July.
